In a stunning about-face on April 1, Judge Richard Goldstone confessed that the damning accusations against Israel in his notorious 2009 UN Goldstone Report were false.

The Goldstone Report has been used as aweapon in the propaganda war against Israel and against its very right to exist.It has done irreparable damage to the IDF, Israel, Jews, the UN, and to the very standards of international law it hypocritically claimed to uphold.

The Report must be officially repudiated.

Brief Background

In his Washington Post op-ed on April 1, 2011, Judge Goldstone admitted what the many critics of the Report had already exposed.

·Israel had not intentionally targeted civilians, and therefore had not committed war crimes, but that each one of the thousands of rockets that Hamas fired at civilians in Israel’s southern communities constituted a war crime.

·Goldstone admitted that Israel’s judiciary met the highest international standards for investigating its own military conduct.

·Goldstone admitted that Israel had a right, like every other nation, to defend itself against attacks such as those perpetrated by Hamas.

·Goldstone conceded that Israel’s published reports about the war were accurate, including that the vast majority of Gaza fatalities were combatants from Hamas and other terrorist groups.

Judge Goldstone tried to defend himself by claiming that if Israel had cooperated with his fact finding mission, the Report would have been more balanced. This claim is not supported by the facts. From its inception, the Goldstone investigation was a kangaroo court.

·The UN Human Rights Council [UNHRC] directive for the investigation was so biased that even a former UNHRC Chairperson refused to lead it.

·Two of the three selected judges had already publicly condemned Israel’s action in Gaza even before they became part of the mission or had collected any evidence.

·Goldstone himself admitted that the UNHRC has a history of systematic bias against Israel.

·The Goldstone investigating team had access to Israel’s voluminous published documentation about the war, but routinely discredited it and disregarded the testimony of witnesses who corroborated Israel’s reports, such as British Colonel (ret.) Richard Kemp.

·In contrast, Goldstone’s investigation team accepted Hamas testimony at face value even though Hamas is a terrorist group that has routinely made false accusations against Israel, and whose founding document calls for the murder of Jews, the destruction of Israel, and cites anti-Semitic libels from the czarist forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

HELP PRESSURE THE UN, AND AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL LEADERS TO OFFICIALLY RETRACT THE GOLDSTONE REPORT NOW!

Sample Letter:

Dear Sir/Madam,

We urge you to unequivocally and officially repudiate the UN Goldstone Report immediately.

Now that Judge Richard Goldstone has admitted that the damning accusations against Israel were false, it is imperative that this Report be repudiated to staunch the irreparable damage it has done to the IDF, Israel, Jews, the UN, and to the very standards of international law it hypocritically claimed to uphold.

Goldstone admitted what the Report’s many critics had already exposed. Israel had not committed war crimes by intentionally targeting civilians, but Hamas in fact had.Israel’s judiciary meets the highest international standards for investigating its own military conduct. Israel has a right, like every other nation, to defend itself against attacks such as the thousands of rockets launched by Hamas. Goldstone conceded that Israel’s published reports about the war were accurate, including that the vast majority of Gaza fatalities were combatants from Hamas and other terrorist groups. He even admitted that the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) has been irredeemably biased against Israel.

You and others were responsible for this Report. It is now your responsibility to set the

record straight. It is time to end the UN’s systematic anti-Israel bias which has done irreparable damage to the UN and its founding principles.